AT&T launching new data plans on Sunday, Jan. 22
By
Bla1ze on 18 Jan 2012 05:59 pm
AT&T has just announced some upcoming changes to their data plans for smartphones that will go into effect as of Sunday, Jan. 22.
The new smartphone plans include:
- AT&T Data Plus 300MB: $20 for 300MB
- AT&T Data Pro 3GB: $30 for 3GB
- AT&T Data Pro 5GB: $50 for 5GB, with mobile hotspot / tethering
BlackBerry customers needing additional data can pay $10 per additional gigabyte on the AT&T Data Pro 3GB and Data Pro 5GB plans; AT&T Data Plus users will receive an extra 300MB for $20.
Current customers won't be required to change to their already existing data plans. In other words, they're not forcing anyone onto the new plans as of yet. However; if you find any of the new plans better then what you have now, you can up customer care and make the switch as of Jan 22. The plans, when you look at them carefully -- actually offer you more value for your money when you look at what you would be paying if you had overage charges but chances are if you're constantly blowing your alloted amount, you've already moved onto a bigger plan.
Source: AT&T
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thegreatbooga Jan 18, 2012 at 6:20 pm
Thank god for the ota bb bridge.
the brother Jan 18, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Dear AT& T Customers,
Please bend over. You're about to get ROOTED.
Piece.
Bmoc009 Jan 19, 2012 at 1:30 am
That and $30/unlimited data grandfathered in = love
Pilot Prop Jan 18, 2012 at 6:29 pm
i still have the $30 unlimited data plan hahahahaaa
SPACE-AGE-INC Jan 19, 2012 at 9:09 am
Me to, plus I get a 27% discount off my monthly bills. Sucks to be a new customer tho.
Connor83 Jan 18, 2012 at 6:35 pm
Hummmm. If I ever have to change , these plans would be better then what we had before. And I would like to know more about the 5GB plan. Also one bog thing. If AT&T is saying stuff about mobile hotspot. Maybe they are going to roll out 7.1 that day as well.
RoseBud68 Jan 18, 2012 at 6:42 pm
Yea they will be rolling out a new 7.1, heard its in the field being tested.
Connor83 Jan 19, 2012 at 8:44 am
Well let's hope it get outs very soon.
dehrlich01 Jan 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Umm… $5 for an extra gig on the Pro plan? Sign me up! Beats paying for an extra gig as an overage on a 2GB plan…
Altarocks Jan 18, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Any word on changes to enterprise plans?
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:19 am
i talked to them yesterday about enterprise and i was told they have a 4gb enterprise with tethering included for $45. considering thats what my unlimited enterprise is (which I have never gone over 300mb), i was thinking about the switch.
Altarocks Jan 19, 2012 at 12:59 pm
I just signed up 1/1/12. The 4GB enterprise tethering is currently $60/month. The current DataPro 4GB w/ tethering (not enterprise) is $45.
buckwylder Jan 18, 2012 at 6:52 pm
some bad data plans from a bad company
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JAF1 Jan 18, 2012 at 7:25 pm
I'm currently on the 200mb - $15/month plan. I'm always on WiFi, so this works fine for me. I want to upgrade to the 9900 but was holding off for a while. Will this plan still be available after the 22nd? Or do I need to upgrade before then?
SC457 Jan 18, 2012 at 9:25 pm
I have that plan to and same thing with being on wifi all the time. Rarely use 100mb of data actually. I think you'll be fine as long as you don't try to change the plan. Upgrades don't change you're plan as far as I know.
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:21 am
Correct...most the time. Unless you go apple. but for $10 more, you can get 2gb plan i thought
igotberryfever Jan 18, 2012 at 7:37 pm
nope got to upgrade now!!!!
axllebeer Jan 18, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Um, I'm a Sprint customer, and is it just me or is this crazy expensive? I'm so used to the unlimited plans costing less than this...
Boldly sent from my 9930
manjazz123 Jan 18, 2012 at 8:07 pm
You get what you pay for.
JR A Jan 18, 2012 at 9:04 pm
I've always had great experience with Sprint whether it was voice or data.
axllebeer Jan 19, 2012 at 12:55 am
I haven't, but it has gotten a lot better here in the last month. The Sprint tower I normally am near was messed up for a year. Yes a year. Email worked just fine but browsing would barely work at all. And couldn't even get MMS messages to come through. If I tried to do a speed test, it would always just time out. However, a week after I got my 9930 they finally fixed it, after a year and about 10 calls to complain. It wasn't my old phone either. My wife, stepdaughter, and myself were all having the same problem. Each of us had a different phone. But now all at once all of them work great. Now I'm happy as a clam.:)
Boldly sent from my 9930
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:22 am
wait till you get a letter in the mail stating if you don't cut back on data usage (on unlimited plan), then they will terminate your service and contract.
mjs416 Jan 19, 2012 at 8:58 am
Can they legally do that? I can see them not allowing you to re-up your contract doing that but can they terminate your contract for that?
axllebeer Jan 18, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Duplicate comment removed.
igotberryfever Jan 18, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Um i am a sprint and a AT&T customer. my Sprint is 99$ for the unlimited plan my att all in cost me 98 a month the only difference is my att may only have 450 minutes to land lines but unlimited text moble to any moble 4 gig of data and mobile hotspot and when i do a speed test i never get below 7 mbps and on SPRINT i pull a sad .79 never pulled over that. so sprint not so good
axllebeer Jan 18, 2012 at 8:21 pm
Wow. Where I live, there is no 4g on any carrier and 3g here is still touch and go and the sprint data speeds here are way better than that. Nowhere near what you get on AT&T, but was a Nextel customer before so running Sprint @ about 1.5mps is screaming fast in comparison to what I came from. But there is no candle comparing those speeds to AT&T else ware.
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:24 am
last time i was on the sprint HQ campus, signal was weak!!
luqman24 Jan 18, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Awww I get 6GB LTE ready,shareable, and tethering + Mobile Hotspot access for $30 on Rogers. Sorry didn't mean to spoil the excitment for some xD
thecsman Jan 18, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Yeah, probably you pay that on top of your $50 voice and 300 add-ons plan =)
luqman24 Jan 18, 2012 at 11:42 pm
Nope $25 voice and $12 addon :)
igotberryfever Jan 18, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Yeah i have H+ on att and 3g on sprint. Where do you live if you dont mind me asking? You said 3G is not all over? Thats crazy.
axllebeer Jan 18, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I'm in south east OH right along the river about 15 miles from Parkersburg WV. Verizon covers the area pretty good as well as Sprint. However one side of our small city, of about 15,000 people, has good 3g speeds while the other you are reduced to 1X. The whole tricounty area is like this though with at least Sprint. Not as sure about Verizon.
igotberryfever Jan 18, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Wow yeah that kinda stinks. Hopfully when sprint turns on the lte setup they got it will vet alot better.
axllebeer Jan 18, 2012 at 8:48 pm
I'll cheers to that! :)
kifac Jan 18, 2012 at 9:08 pm
i pay 30$ for 6GB of data on Rogers :)
doubleaa25 Jan 18, 2012 at 9:16 pm
HOW COME CANADA CANNOT HAVE CHEAP DATA PLANS?? I know that some people pay 30 bucks for 6 GB of data but that is only in Quebec and because some Quebecois company was having a deal and all the other carriers wanted to match it. BUT WHY CANT THEY DO THE SAME FOR THE REST OF US??? I am sick and tired of the 'Big Three' abusing the cell phone market and its consumers. No wonder so many third party researchers rank Canada as one of the worst cell phone markets, beside China.
kifac Jan 18, 2012 at 9:24 pm
Umm not only in Quebec my friend...I live in Toronto and i have it.
Its pretty much for anyone signed up with Rogers.
You just have to ask for it.
luqman24 Jan 18, 2012 at 11:46 pm
And Fido ;)
Kevstra Jan 19, 2012 at 2:52 am
I'm in Calgary on Telus and I get 6GB data for 30$. :)
jstarett Jan 18, 2012 at 9:45 pm
if they change the price for the unlimited texting I might change to that... right now I pay 50$ for unlimited texting/data but can not legally tether/mobile hotspot which is like 50-60$ more...but 5gb of data for 50$ and you get tethering/hotspot that is pretty nicely priced for the US side. Wonder if Verizon is coming out with something like this as well my contract is up with AT&T and I am waiting on the new BB10 phones
The_Kills Jan 18, 2012 at 9:58 pm
SimpleMobile.com
no thanks AT&Flop.
raul.adams Jan 18, 2012 at 10:14 pm
Goddamn AT&T!!!!! as soon as my contract is over (4 more monthes) am GOING to CANCEL YOU!!!!
BoldWorld Jan 18, 2012 at 11:22 pm
help me understand
are these plans replacing the old plans or is it additional to the old plans ?
Old
200MB for $15
2GB for $25
4GB+ tethering $45
New
300MB for $20
3GB for $30
5GB+ for $50
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:26 am
probably moving ahead with them and be the new ones?
TeaBoy Jan 18, 2012 at 11:39 pm
200mb for 15 wasn't such a good deal at all..now 300mb for 20 is worst than before...
i am going to update my plan to 2gb for 25 since i have a playbook now...
Alooi Divona Jan 19, 2012 at 2:00 am
In my carrier viva Bahrain its 10 BHD unlimited data wich is $26.60 :D
iPoX Jan 19, 2012 at 3:41 am
Oh dudes,
I have unlimited voice/text
3GB (Mode mode available / VoIP)
all that for 16€/months guys
and no engagment!
come to france ;)
ibcnul8ter Jan 19, 2012 at 7:27 am
its crap here. my friend from korea was in the states last week and they don't have to pay one cent more for tethering and wifi hotspots.... :(
vbuckjr Jan 19, 2012 at 7:35 am
VZW and AT&T Duopoly in actions let's take a look VZW has a hidden $20 for 300MB plan they are not sure they will keep but for the sake of this post lets say they do.
ATT $20 300MB
VZW $20 -300MB
ATT $30 3GB
VZW $30 -2GB
ATT $50 5GB
VZW $50 -5GB
If anything it looks like VZW gave AT&T the right to raise prices. If they are going to have Tiered plans they should have some prices under $20 for reasonable amount of data. I think anything under 1GB should be under $20. $10 or $15 for 300MB $20 for 1GB then I suppose what they have now.
Second if it is tiered then for $30 for 2GB or 3GB I should be able to mobile hotspot or tether it is on me to stay under the plans data limit.
spencerdl Jan 19, 2012 at 9:16 am
To AT&T and Verizon...........SERIOUS???
lbjailer Jan 19, 2012 at 9:19 am
okay you pay for a data plan, why not just allow tethering will all data plans? you're paying for the data anyway, why should it matter how it is used?
guerllamo7 Jan 19, 2012 at 10:03 am
From a BlackBerry perspective, mobile companies switching from all you can eat data plans to pay for usage is a good thing.
BlackBerry sips vs. other phones that suck 300% more from previous versions.
BlackBerry is hugely popular overseas because there is no subsidy and people pay for usage. This is good for BlackBerry.
crackcookie Jan 19, 2012 at 3:16 pm
This is good for BB, they use on average 1/4 less data, but not only that, unless using a playbook, BB users on average use less data period.
Ex.
BB data user iphone data user
average 1gig av 3g
compressed to 250Mb not compressed
less used and when it is used, its still less, you would have to use 4 times the data on a BB to equal out to that of iphone
BUT, BB's don't use data as well...in terms of streaming video I feel. So that is also why BB users use less data
axllebeer Jan 19, 2012 at 11:53 pm
Very good points about data usage comparisons and agreed that BB's have always been more data efficient. I'm really curious to discover if the up and coming BB10 devices will continue this or not. It seems that RIM is going to rely less and less on the NOC with the future of hand sets and this may not continue if that's the case. Still a little bit off to worry about of course. Might start a thread about this in the forums as I'm sure someone knows more about it than I.
Boldly sent from my 9930
nycccemtp Jan 25, 2012 at 7:32 am
i wish there was a way to keep my grandfathered unlimited plan and get tethering/mobile hotspot/bb bridge approved on an AT&T OS so I could finally have VVM on my 9900.... I pay enough but would pay a small premium for those features if they GUARANTEED NO THROTTLING!!